Round 2 - sanfl

FOOTY STILL ON
THE AGENDA BY ROBERT LAIDLAW
Chris and James Gowans, for the
first time this millennium, will
not be playing football with Central
District.
They will, however, be suiting up
for another club!
But before anyone gets too carried
away, it’s not with a rival SANFL
club or in another major
competition. The duo are heading
back home to Anglesea in country
Victoria for half a dozen guest
appearances in 2013.
“We wanted to finish where we
started our senior career and felt it
was a good time just to throw on the
boots to help out at our old
stomping ground,” Chris said.
“They have lost about 15 players
and have a real young side. We met
the coach at Christmas time and
committed to come over and play a
handful of home games. We don’t
have to train, just play when we
can.”
Although brought up in Victoria,
James and Chris are committed to
their adopted State and have
married Adelaide women, while
their building business would be
too hard to transplant interstate.
Both Gowans boys will also be
‘sharing’ duties at ABC TV as guest
commentators this season, and are
looking forward to getting out to a
few ‘neutral’ games.
“While yes, we will be going home
a few times to play footy, we
normally head there a few times a
season anyway, on byes and that, so
it will not be much different to other
years,” Chris said.
“And we have been out to a couple
of trial games and the feeling is
pretty ordinary, we miss playing
with the Dogs. At least we have
Willo (Ryan Williams) and O’ey
(Brayden O’Hara), two Central
District players working for us so
we keep up with the goss.
“It’s hard to watch though. We
didn’t think it was going to be this
hard, as it’s not like we quit because
we were injured.”